Haml
Haml is a markup language for generating xml and other markup - most popularly HTML. Over the past few weeks I have been writing a few Ruby on Rails applications and chose Haml as the templating …
Software Development
Test Driven Talks
Taking a leaf out of the XP book and in particular test driven development I have had some successes in using this idea when doing a presentation. I have dubbed the idea ‘Test driven …
Technology Synergy
I started writing this post quite some time ago but never got around to wrapping up the loose ends. The article is really a summary of what I learnt during a pretty intense media web site development …
Testing - what to test when
After tweeting that I wanted to have suggestions for blog entries I got a single reply asking for my thoughts on DAO and unit testing – essentially asking should DAO be unit tested. The problem with …
Dallas geek night
Last week I happened to be in Dallas for a client and was invited along to the Dallas Geeknight held at the ThoughtWorks offices there. The Dallas Geeknight is ‘oldschool’ which is not …
Optimising build times
I just came across this post and want to remember it so posing here. http://doublebuffered.com/2009/02/11/optimizing-build-times-for-large-c-projects/. I am most interested in the uplift in …
New BTree algorithms for virtual memory systems
This is a very interesting article http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1814327 which demonstrates that we should not take things for granted - including algorithms that have been around for a long …
Performance testing web applications
When performance testing a web application (as in raw operations per second) I have seem many people try to benchmark their new system against the agreed performance level right off the bat. The …
Post Redirect Get web interaction pattern
Post/Redirect/Get or Redirect after Post is an HTTP interaction pattern that can be used when developing web applications. I have been mentioning it quite a few times in my consulting work and thought …
It always takes a second
Why do application developers think that adding more functionality is always a good thing for the user? When I first started working on GUI applications (Windows 1.0) we worked very hard to get …